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FeedM8 Gives You RSS Feeds via Text

FeedM8 launched in August as a mobilization tool for your favorite web content, and managed to grow quickly since then, adding over 1,00 in one month's time, between September and October. Having emerged as a tool for web site mobilization, the company is now looking to tackle the mobile feed sector in an even more direct manner. A new service from FeedM8, called Web-Alerts, will automatically pick up on the RSS feeds of websites based on their URL.

Web-Alerts is based off of FeedM8's existing technology, it's just a more direct way to get the updates you're looking for in a mobile manner. Instead of having to use your mobile browser in order to stay caught up with your RSS feeds of choice, Web-Alerts will in fact send you a text message for all your updates. Yahoo already has a similar service for RSS via SMS, but what's useful about this tool is the automated ease of the tool, along with the keyword option so that you can get the RSS updates that are pertinent to you.

The company has indicated that the new Web-Alert tool will come in handy for high frequency feeds, from sites like Digg or Del.icio.us. But do you really want a text message for every single RSS update? What will make or break tools such as this are the filtering options, interactivity, and integrated organization. Once you get your text message alerts from Web-Alert, you'll be directed to FeedM8's mobile browsing site where you can see the related posts depending on your keyword. So FeedM8 has some basic filtering options so far.

Interactivity and integrated organization (such as options to add items to a web-based bookmarking service, view additional details and comments, leave your own comments, etc.), will come later, from the looks of the direction in which FeedM8 is already headed.

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